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Local History & Genealogy

    The library's local history and genealogy collection is housed in the McLaughlin Room, located just off the children's department. Most of the collection must be used in-house, with selected books available for check out. The room provides table space for materials, a microfilm reader/printer for the microfilm collection, and a computer with Internet access to Ancestry.com as well as other genealogy sites.

Check back often as we will be adding more .pdf files of family genealogies as copyright laws allow.

Included in the library's collection:

  • DAR Patriot Index
  • History of Henry & Fulton Counties, 1888
  • History of Williams County, 1882
  • History of Fulton County, 1920
  • Fulton County, Ohio: 1850-1976, A Collection of Historical & Family Sketches
  • Fulton County Marriages, 1864-1925; June 10, 1927-July 21, 1944
  • Tombstone Inscriptions for Fulton County
  • Civil War Soldiers Discharge Abstracts, Fulton County
  • Our Town: History of Pettisville, Ohio
  • A Pictorial History of Swanton, Ohio

Additional Websites

Bureau of Land Management - Search Federal Land Patents and more

MennObits - Obituary site maintained by Mennonite Church USA

Fulton County historical and genealogical information, including obituaries, can be found at Fulton County GenWeb.  
              

Family Histories & Genealogies  

Compiled by/Author

Mona Aeschliman Mann
Carol Nafziger
Mona Mann
 
Willis Bucher
Margaret Bock Phillips
James D. Buhrer
  • Diary of Susan Burkholder
Susan Burkholder
  • The Dominique Family of Fulton County, Ohio, 1849-1990
Jana Sloan Broglin
  • One Man's Family - A History & Genealogy of the Fetzer Family
John Fetzer
Isabelle Pursel
  • The Jacob C. & Mary (Burkholder) Frey Family - Ancestors & Descendants, 1997
Marcile Rupp Nofziger
  • The History of the Grime & Roth Family
Nona & Gene Grime
  • The Hartpence Family in America - Descendants of Johannes Eberhart Pence & Han Kitchen of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, 1735-1985
Esther Leonard Heer
  • Ancestry of Minnie Mae Leu Heer, Fulton County,
Esther Leonard Heer
  • Ancestry of Nelson Vere Heer, Fulton County, Ohio
Esther Leonard Heer
  • The Huber-Hoover Family History Index
Jerri Lynn Burkett
  • Heartland Memories
Marion J. Johnson
  • Memories of Jessie Belle Hopper Lantz, April 28, 1868 - November 16, 1959: History of the Hopper Family
 
  • An American History of the 1837 Leininger Family
Georgene (Leininger)  Gallagher
  • The Leininger Family - One of the Oldest in the State & Nation
Mrs. Charles Bailer
  • The Miley Family History (1495-1964)
Paul Newcomber Miley,   David Ray Miley, Ray Leonard Miley
  • Ol' Dan's Diary
Daniel & Joel Rashley
  • Feisz Families (Rice) in Europe & America - 1572-1995
Betty (Rice) Henry
  • August Ruihley: A Private History
Glen Richard Ruihley
  • Descendants of Johannes Rupp
Allen E. Rupp
  • My Memories
Hulda E. Schlapfer
  • My Searles Family Line of Massachusetts; Tompkins County, New York; Cayuga County, New York; Huron County, Ohio; Fulton County, Ohio; Eaton County, Michigan
Albert Good
  • The Sells - Gessells & McQuaide Families
David Stivison
Isabelle Pursel
Frederick (Fritz) Stamm
  • The Spiess Family Story - Switzerland to the Midwest USA
Arlene Post Norton
  • Stauffer - Sauder Genealogy
Marjorie Ladd Holbrook
  • The Stotzer - Gould Family History
Jonathan Gould Stotzer
  • Winzeler Family Lines in USA
Howard W. Winzeler

 School Yearbooks

 
  •  Archbold: 1912, 1928, 1936, 1939, 1946-1965, 1970-1971, 1973-1986, 1988-1989, 1991--
  •  Ridgeville Corners: 1946, 1948-1960
  •  Wauseon: 1923-1927, 1929-1931
  • Bound editions of the Archette, the newspaper of Archbold High School - 1941-1946, 1949-1958

 Microfilm

  •  Archbold Herald  - 1/4/1893-6/9/1898
  •  Archbold Advocate - 1/18/1900-12/5/1907
  •  Archbold Buckeye - 1905-present